Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the Role

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete their core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of the day is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record sets the example: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instructional. The AI manages academic content delivery. Your focus is motivating, coaching, and holding students to the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself.

If the idea of upholding elite expectations for students feels too demanding, this isn't the right fit. Your background includes competition, achievement, or creation at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level athletics, a distinguished degree from a top-tier institution, work at a highly selective firm, or a venture you launched and grew.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible narratives from your own high-level experience, then evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing the campus culture each morning through deliberate kickoffs that reinforce expectations for high performance
• Monitoring student advancement in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
• Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through unwavering standards, reliability, and documented motivation strategies

What You Won't Be Doing

• Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic system manages instruction; you manage motivation
• Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
• Supervising other personnel or advancing through administrative ranks (this role centers on direct student influence, not organizational progression)
• Attending staff meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your time remains student-centered)
• Compromising standards to satisfy metrics (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 100%)

Key Responsibilities

Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
• Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It's for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

Pay

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The compensation level for this role is $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.